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Après l'Office à l'Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Noël 1890 ("After the Service at Holy Trinity Church, Christmas 1890") by Jean Béraud. The origins of the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, an English-speaking Episcopal church in Paris, date back to the 1830s when American Episcopalians began to meet together for services in the garden pavilion of the Hôtel Matignon, now the ...
Joan of Arc is said to have prayed in the chapel on the eve of her unsuccessful attempt in 1429 to recapture Paris from the English. The classical facade was added in the 18th century. Saint-Jean de Montmartre: 19 Rue des Abbesses 18th arrondissement: Art Nouveau built 1894–1904: The church was the first in Paris to be built of reninforced ...
Constructed circa 1893–94 by architect Jules-Godefroy Astruc, it was inaugurated on 13 May 1894, allocated by the Jesuit Fathers of Sainte-Geneviève school in Paris, consecrated to Our Lady of Lebanon, a Marian shrine in Beirut, Lebanon. Following the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the Jesuits left it. It ...
Saint-Joseph-des-Nations is a Roman Catholic Church located at 161 rue Saint-Maur in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.It was built between 1867 and 1874 in the Neo-Romanesque style by architect Theodore Ballu.
From 1832 a cholera epidemic swept Paris. The sisters disseminated the medal, and as the epidemic receded and fewer people were infected, and Parisians began to call the medal "miraculous." [3] In 1849, the chapel was expanded and thereafter other modifications were executed. Since 1930, the date of its complete renovation, the chapel is as it ...
The Church of St. Eustache, Paris (French: église Saint-Eustache, pronounced [eɡliz sɛ̃t‿østaʃ]), is a church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.The present building was built between 1532 and 1633.
The Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre (English: Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was formally approved as a national ...
The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis [1]) is a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris.